Comments on: And That Happened: Wednesday’s scores and highlightshttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/29/and-that-happened-wednesdays-scores-and-highlights-112/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:24:58 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: stex52http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/29/and-that-happened-wednesdays-scores-and-highlights-112/comment-page-1/#comment-721040
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:53:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-721040I got to see the Astros game in person last night. It was mostly a homerun derby, but there were also some sparkling defensive plays. Several were excellent, but one stood out.

Goldschmidt on second and Prado hit a dying quail blooper to shallow right. Just in the no man’s land where the first baseman doesn’t have a shot and the rightfielder had better have his track shoes on. But young Sir Springer comes sailing in out of nowhere and – with a rolling dive – snags it inches off the turf. Goldschmidt is just crossing home plate – because obviously no one was going to catch that. Easiest double off from right I ever saw..

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Thu, 29 May 2014 21:08:19 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-713196I’m an English teacher and I approve of this extremely erudite discussion. Thanks, folks!
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Thu, 29 May 2014 21:06:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-713195Yes they can: Nancy Reagan said!
]]>By: moogrohttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/29/and-that-happened-wednesdays-scores-and-highlights-112/comment-page-1/#comment-713181
Thu, 29 May 2014 20:44:19 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-713181His helmet falls off his ridiculous head. Every. Single. Swing.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 18:15:47 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-713046I’ll have whatever Kazmir’s having.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 16:19:54 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712985You know, OG, you’ve been mentioning this dread viroid Cubs billygoat disease for a couple of years at least and it just hit me this morning when you mentioned “kuru” that, oh!, the Dutch were the colonial power in Indonesia and I finally “got it.” My God you function effortlessly in the world of severe abstractions.

So speaking of the Dutch let me take this brief free moment before I run off to my shift to ask what is probably a very dumb question: you have read “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” right? I remember your talking up “Cloud Atlas” so I just assumed….?

PS – I can see that the standings still show the Jays in first by three games. I look at that every morning and I feel rather like the Coyote ten feet beyond the edge of the cliff before he has a chance to look down. I am certain that Jays fans everywhere share this anxiety. Am I correct?

]]>By: dluxxxhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/29/and-that-happened-wednesdays-scores-and-highlights-112/comment-page-1/#comment-712955
Thu, 29 May 2014 15:38:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712955You know that 96% of percentages are just made up on the spot, right?
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Thu, 29 May 2014 15:36:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712953Went up to Kansas City to see the crap show that has been the Royals. Game started with an E3, and then Springer’s Homer, and it went down hill from there. The Royals not only got swept, but got taken behind a Texas Woodshed and embarrassed.

Oh well, not all was lost. I’m hungover and sunburned today. That is always the sign that you had a good summer outing.

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Thu, 29 May 2014 15:29:31 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712950That was more like it. The marquee matchup we expected with Scherzer vs. Gray actually materialized with Sanchez vs. Kazmir. Although to be honest, up until the 9th I thought there was no way Detroit was losing the game. Crisp’s double prompted Brad to pull Sanchez, a move I thought was premature, to bring in Nathan who has not been completely trustworthy in 2014. Jaso’s liner off Castellanos’ glove was one of those “game of inches” things. And at that point, I believed.

Evidently so did Donaldson, as he got so far in front of the Nathan fastball that it was almost pulled foul. Joy abounded on the green-and-gold side of the Bay, mitigated by the sound off so as not to endure the shriekings of color man du jour Shooty Babbitt.

The Gigantes were already in full-on celebration mode, nearly no-hitting the Cubs (a team effort as Timmy could only manage 5 IP after 30+ pitches in the first). If the Giants keep this up through August, the discussion will turn to serious consideration of “What’s the next number in this series: 2010…2012…???”

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Thu, 29 May 2014 15:26:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712944Woah, how much did they score in that game total? It must be some kind of record.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 15:06:49 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712927We can’t get too mad at Burton. I haven’t checked this, but I believe that over 90% of the time that a team scores 0 runs it winds up losing.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 15:05:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712925Okay, that makes me a little less upset then. He probably tweaked it on that great catch he had on Tuesday night.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:53:41 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712919According to Rotoworld, Hicks was scratched due to a stiff lower back.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:47:47 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712916The Giants have scored 106 runs with two outs. That’s almost half their run total for the season.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:44:39 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712914Your daughter has good taste.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:20:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712901Holy crap, Gator… don’t wear out your quotation mark key. Although I admit that I do like your nicknames infinitely more than the vile dreck that Chris Berman usually regurgitates at the All-Star Game and Homer Run Derby.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:15:16 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712897I think she’s undercover… stalking Beautiful Brad with the purpose of kicking his ass.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:14:21 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712896I went to the Twins game last night, and Gibson also pitched a gem. Honestly, they were doing very well until they put Burton in. He’s been struggling all year, and again, he’s the goat. Oh well.

The thing that really bugs me, is the fact that Hicks was on the bench yesterday. I don’t know if he would have done any better than Santana offensively, but he really couldn’t have done much worse (0-2 with a BB). I’m not a fan of putting a career middle-infielder out in CF. And then to add insult to injury, he’s in there for a guy who recently gave up switch-hitting to concentrate on hitting right handed only. Why would you put him on the bench? He actually has a platoon advantage and you’re going to take that away from him? Really? I really question Gardy sometimes.

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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:14:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712895Thanks, Uyf… this streak has been fun to watch but the Empire is keeping pace for the most part, and that still makes me nervous. Now both teams get to test themselves against the AL Central.
]]>By: nbjayshttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/29/and-that-happened-wednesdays-scores-and-highlights-112/comment-page-1/#comment-712892
Thu, 29 May 2014 14:08:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712892Out of the mouths of babes…

Sorry to take pleasure in your pain, ‘Burgie, but that is priceless. And speaking of Price-less… that’s the only reason we were able to pull off the sweep, because we didn’t have to face the man who has outright owned our ass for years.

Now we get to face your former pitcher, Shields, who is 12-6 lifetime against the Jays, but only 4-3 in our house.

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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:01:53 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712889Last night was the battle of the boolpen meltdowns at Gnats Meadow. It could have been billed as Chernobyl versus Janjira instead of Gnats versus Feesh, with the director of the NAEC throwing out the first pitch. I think the pitching rubber was packed in a lead cylinder and shipped by rail to Yucca Mountain following the game, and the Gnats were rumored to be making a seven figure offer to Hannes Alfvén to come on board as disposal coach.

Craig shows his northern bias in giving most of the credit to the Gnats’ dingaling duo of Jerry Blevins (who may or may not be related to Jimmy Blevins, the sharpshooting juvenile delinquent from All the Pretty Horses, but whose haplessness amound surely points to a set of crossed chromosomes) and Aaron Barrett, who came out with that determined “let’s get this over with and go home” look on both of their faces, and pretty well lived down to their vision. Yet for all that, come on, when it comes to a trio of shorted cooling pumps the Feesh’s own Chris “Popeye Doyle” Hatcher and A. J. “Kourou”* Ramos, who barfed up a four-run lead in the 6th and 7tn innings and made the Gnats’ tenth inning antiheroics possible in the first place.

The Feesh scored their deciding runs in the tenth on a one-run bases loaded single that Feesh cleanup slugger Casey “Single Dinger” McGehee bounced off the left field wall (yes, and I did watch it, and I am still trying to figure out exactly how a bases loaded drive orf the left field wall produced exactly one run – it happens, but so does metempsychosis, I am told), a two run double Reed Johnson punched over the head of that wildly gesticulating yeti that the Gnats have playing right field, and a single by pinchitter Donovan Solano.

But for all that, folks, the real fun came when the Gnats loaded the bases in the bottom of the eighth with nobody out against Mike “Second Coming of Mitch Williams” Dunn, whereupon Dun struck out Rendon, popped Werth up to third, and stiffed Adam “Sasquatch” LaRoach on a groundout. I’m sure Gnats fans haven’t felt so frustrated since junior prom night.

So the Feesh exert a little more resistance to the strange attractor’s gossamer reality waves and inch to within a half a game of the Bravos, who now seem to be making serious attempts to evacuate their dual black holes and the center of their lineup. Those same Bravos will appear at Macondo Banana Massacre Field tomorrow, sending Julio “the Ayatollah” to the mound. Fun, fun, fun.

*Kourou, the international satellite launching pad in French Guiana, should not be confused with Kuru, the Indonesian prion-vectored neurological disease spread by eating brains and believed to be closely related to the prion-vectored neurological disease “die Vloek van der Geitbok” spread by osmosis when showering in the Cubs clubhouse sanitary facilities.

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Thu, 29 May 2014 14:00:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712888Wouldn’t that be the Reds-Dodgers re-crap?
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Thu, 29 May 2014 13:48:49 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712873Smart kid.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 13:44:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712870I was noticing that as well. Hopefully she’s just on vacation to some place exotic or something and hasn’t drunk herself senseless during the Tiger’s losing streak…
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Thu, 29 May 2014 13:31:15 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712864The Jays played great defense. I can’t recall the last time I saw so many hard hit balls for nothing. In contrast, the Rays handed the game over in the 9th with some asstastic defense, wasting a beautiful pitching effort by young, confident Archer. My team just keeps finding new and more heartbreaking ways lose. To cap off the heartbreak, my daughter excitedly says, “Blue Jays!” while we watch the game. She saw the big bird effigy behind home plate. We really have been feeding the resident jays in the neighborhood and she’s developed a fondness for the pretty birds, so now she tells me she’s a Blue Jays fan. Children.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 13:21:37 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712855The old walk-off bunt. Classic ending.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 13:16:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712853Interesting question, Craig. I will have to ask the local houngans and santeras if that applies to cases of possession. What would your lwa be doing while you are naturally functioning, for example – reading a newspaper?
]]>By: proudlycanadianhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/29/and-that-happened-wednesdays-scores-and-highlights-112/comment-page-1/#comment-712849
Thu, 29 May 2014 13:09:54 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712849The Yankees are in a wildcard position.
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Thu, 29 May 2014 13:07:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712846The A’s are Amazing!
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Thu, 29 May 2014 13:03:45 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523376#comment-712843There must be something going on. I don’t know how she voluntarily misses the Tiger zumbah thread
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